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The abstract is one of the most important factors in academic conferences. It is where the ideas take shape, reviewers decide what belongs in the program, and where the identity of the event begins to form. Long before badges are printed or sessions are scheduled, abstracts define the intellectual quality of a conference. Continue reading
The art of using abstract management systems is knowing what your audiences want. An even more complicated and yet entirely possible task is to determine how many attendees will show up for your event. Yes, the figure is approximate but not speculative. It helps you prepare for your event.
Abstract management is one of those tasks that appears simpler than it is in practice. The closer one gets to the field, the tougher the process seems. This may be true of perhaps a lot of fields. But abstract management is particularly prone to this kind of underestimation.
Conference organizers across the globe share a common headache. The process of managing academic abstracts manually has transformed into an overwhelming burden that drains resources and threatens event quality. Every year, thousands of research conferences struggle with the same problem that refuses to go away.
Handling events in 2026 requires more than just registration and ticketing. Event organizers require tools that combine abstract management, speaker review process management, CRM, and engagement. These tools will enable you to host successful academic, scientific, hybrid, and business events efficiently and effectively.
Abstract management, a broad term that roughly refers to all the tasks that are involved in the organization of abstracts, is not similarly straightforward and linear. When managing abstracts for conferences and for symposia, event planners have to account for the collecting, segregating, allocating, reviewing and subsequent matching and publishing of these abstracts. That sounds like too much for the ordinary task manager to do all by themselves.
Conference organizers who invite abstract submissions for their events know the struggle all too well. With submissions pouring in from across the globe, keeping a close watch on abstracts as they come in is close to impossible. Your team of professionals simply cannot manage to deal with hundreds of abstracts at the same time. They are prone to making errors and missing out on certain pitfalls.
You became an academic conference organizer because you believed in bringing researchers together. You wanted to create spaces where abstract ideas could collide and collaborations could form. You saw yourself shaping programs that would contribute to scaling up a field and subsequently, broader mankind.
Conference organizers, particularly in peak submission seasons, know the drill all too well. Organizing entities and the overwhelming employees that work for them wake up every morning to dozens of abstract submissions flooding in as the deadline approaches. The rest of the day the team dreads all the more. Each of these abstracts needs personal attention and careful review as though they were a pupil in class. Reviewers then need to be assigned based on their expertise and every submission deserves fair evaluation.
Managing conference abstracts feels like conducting an orchestra. You are coordinating reviewers and tracking submissions while you maintain quality standards and keep everyone informed on a tight timeline. However, you might wonder how to determine if your process actually works.
Several things have changed, done and undone itself in the academic event management space over the years. As a matter of fact, the industry itself has changed in some fundamental ways. Thanks to the advent of technology such as Artificial Intelligence(AI) and data analytics, which have since taken the world by storm. However, even through the changes, abstracts are perhaps one of the few elements that have stood the test of time and remain relevant still. Continue reading
Organizing a multi-disciplinary event sounds like the most exciting thing in the world initially. The excitement begins to wither as event professionals hit the abstract collection phase. Abruptly, you find yourself drowning in submissions coming in from physicists who use heavy jargon, sociologists who are presenting complex data in patchy paragraphs and artists who are quite literally ‘abstract’ in their submissions.